skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a short story, but maybe you're remembering a bit from "Snow Crash"?

> Y.T's mom pulls up the new memo, checks the time, and starts reading it. The estimated reading time is 15.62 minutes... Y.T.'s mom decides to spend between fourteen and fifteen minutes reading the memo. It's better for younger workers to spend too long, to show they're careful, not cocky. It's better for older workers to go a little fast, to show good management potential. She's pushing forty. She scans through the memo, hitting the Page Down button at reasonably regular intervals, occasionally paging back up to pretend to reread some earlier section. The computer is going to notice all this. It approves of rereading. It's a small thing, but over a decade or so this stuff really shows up on your work-habits summary.
Brazilian here. Same leak. New info suggest that the files contained far more info than previously thought.
It's not going to happen anytime soon in the US, but the thing that will win people over is a genuine common philosophy of some kind. We've spent the last 50 years doing a weird washed-out half- Christianity, and now half of us want the old Christianity-based system back, and the other half wants a tech-humanism that is anathema to the first half.

If either side is genuine about their beliefs, a first step is probably enforcing single-issue bills in Congress.
MS Office 365 and Azure or AWS. You can get collaborative editing of documents in MS Office now, if they are stored on OneDrive/SharePoint I think.
> Ring Central seems appallingly expensive to me with their per-seat pricing

This is exactly the attitude of the customers for this service. They want equivalent of enterprise features for pennies on a dollar.
I couldn't figure out how to switch from all topics to something else on mobile
I re-did this one recently but there's definitely room for improvement. https://getrecut.com
CA has received the largest allotment of vaccines by a wide margin and while they have administered the largest number of doses, they remain at the bottom of the pile with respect to administering what they have been allotted (less than 45%). Some CA hospitals report 50% of their staff do not want to be vaccinated. CA has vaccinated less than 1% of its population, Israel more than 20%.

We are wasting time with a failed "ethical rollout". If the objective is "herd immunity", we should spend more time and energy vaccinating the people we can rather than creating prioritization road blocks and vaccine shaming.
jordan.roher.me/blog
It's crazy to think about if you've never thought about this, but the speed of light is a bottleneck for processors. When we get smaller devices, there's literally less distance that needs to be traversed, so more can be done!
Great point. This would give Google's advertising services an unfair advantage over its competitors.

This really only seems beneficial to Google, not to other advertisers, or to end-users.
Companies? How about your government? I have a coworker who had returns filed against them by someone in prison! If that does not startle people how about that in some states absentee votes are merely verified against a signature on file.

What we need is a means that others can be sure it really is us and we can sure that actions we have taken are credited to us and those we did not are not.

In effect we will need a system by which we have instant notification; similar to how some CC providers mail or text you each transaction; and historical tracking so that we can prove when we did or did not.

However there are not many unique methods to physically identify people short of dna transfer. I know that people bring up Minority Report whenever facial recognition comes up but that wasn't the tech they used, they used iris recognition.

So we break down each action and assign a value to how secure and verified it must be and work our way up from there. Similar to how self driving cars are defined, on a level of one to five how secure must an action be before its accepted
What TLDs are those?
>For the first time in human history, more people die from diseases that come as a consequence of old age — such as cancer and heart attacks — than infectious disease.

I wonder how they count covid deaths in this.

Maybe covid deaths with no co-morbidities = infectious, covid deaths with co-morbidities = specific co-morbidity?
It is endlessly fascinating to me to contemplate how much the world has changed in a relatively short period of time, and specifically with regards to how much time was required for communication between people separated by great distances.
Yes the microphone was better. My Bluetooth 4.0 adapter still resulted in an 8kHz duplex connection to them though
I was very skeptical of it as well, and had the same reaction to the medical professionals saying this. Their off the cuff "oh, yeah, ninety days, makes sense" led to me believe them. Note as well I'm referring only to catching covid - not the vaccine.

There's this early study from July as well https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2025179?query=fea...

And cdc guidance https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-suggests-reco...
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Good catch.

FYI, if anyone is wondering how the US Government spending fits in this puzzle, remember that when Motorola broke itself up, they sold their mobile infrastructure business to a Nokia/Siemens joint venture, which still has thousands of engineers working in the Chicago suburbs.

Most, if not all, of this money is going to be spent in the USA within the American tech sector, even if the company name is European.
What is wrong with Jekyll and Github Pages?
> It would make some sense as mis-managing the fuel-air mixture on a small piston plane can lead to catastrophic failure. (frozen carb for ex)

Carb freezing doesn't occur as a result of mixture mismanagement, but rather by failure to apply carburetor heat when flying in conditions conducive to carb icing.

Mismanaging the mixture is far less likely to have any acute effects. Descending with a lean[er] mixture may cause issues at lower altitudes where the mixture would be too lean, but it would be unusual for that to lead to an engine stoppage.

Further - a pilot inexperienced in mixture management would likely not lean the mixture at all and just fly full-rich which again, wouldn't likely lead to any acute failures, just higher fuel consumption and longer-term issues with the engine.
12/23/20 . 9-12 months into the pandemic a poll shows people taking it seriously. 350k deaths into a pandemic a poll shows people taking it seriously. Show me a credible poll (is that an oxymoron?) 1-6 months where Americans took it seriously into the pandemic and i'll happily concede most of my point.
What a classic! Phrack stopped publishing some time ago but the world of security ploughs on, who can recommend similar modern resources to Phrack?

Here's a few I'm aware of:

https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/

https://secret.club/
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> EDIT: I think the guy who started Huawei said something to the effect of when you are a millionaire, you only care about yourself, but when you are a billionaire, you are all the sudden responsible for a lot of people. I wish that attitude permeated our business schools and boardrooms.

That’s what the poors need; noblesse oblige oligarchy.
site appears down. internet archive to the rescue: https://web.archive.org/web/20210125133431/https://www.midni...
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Have you considered that he’s tasked with distilling a highly technical situation with few parallels and known factors, that is also highly fluid in nature down to basic talking points. Talking points that someone without a medical degree can digest in 5 minutes. And as a result it can sometimes come across as waffling or confusion.

And that’s an inherently difficult situation. I know a LOT of very smart people that struggle with just that.
Not to mention he did such for about 9 months while also battling combative superiors and him struggling to strike a balance that would still allow him to even....get that info out there.
Every business is a roller coaster, no matter how small or big it is. The name of the game is: long-term thinking.

I've built several products over the past decade outside of my day job, including non-software products. Most of them failed financially, but that's the reality of it. For every successful story you hear, there will be 100s of failures you never hear about.

After talking with many founders who "made it", most of the time those successes came after years of struggle, and continuously learning and re-inventing the product. Once the success comes, the media will tell a very glamorous story, inspiring lots of new founders too.

What has worked really well for me: "scratch your own itch". Build something you wish existed, it's much easier to stay motivated and know what to build when you are your own customer.

No list of startup ideas can give you this, be observant and constantly get out of your comfort zone for inspiration. "Comfort" is a bubble which blinds you from the problems that need solving. I mean, it's right there in the word: comfort = problem-less :)

It also makes answering this question easier: "would you pay for the product yourself"? By scratching your own itch, you're also putting yourself in the shoes of your potential customers when it comes to evaluating the value you get from the product.

Also, if you want to escape the 9-5 grind, don't build something just for the money, it won't be fulfilling down the road either. Once it's financially successful, the last thing you want is to dread waking up each day to run your company.

Regarding your point on finding time, I personally work about 2 hours per day on my projects. It's surprising how much you can get done when you are in your best shape (physically and mentally). Look out for quiet spots too, I'm most productive when there's not much else going on, either early in the morning or late at night.

The most important thing: give yourself time to relax after work, last thing you want is to burn out. Enjoy time with your family, and friends (once the COVID situation is better of course). When you’re not working on your project, be present (stop thinking about what you will do next). Really take a break from it. I cannot stress how important this is, and I made this mistake far too many times.

In short: build a sustainable model for yourself that you can stick to for the long-term. If things get complicated, cut scope. If things aren't working out, pivot or move on to another project. Above all, prioritize your wellness and quality time with your loved ones. Time is your currency, you will never get it back.
The ad industry is prepared for this. DNS-over-HTTPS will ignore your PiHole, and lovingly bring you ads anyways. While you can turn DoH off in your browser, your IoT device will not be so configurable. And will most likely fail to work entirely if you block access to Google's DoH endpoint.

DoH is an incredibly user hostile technology designed to remove your agency to control your network traffic, and by and large, the majority of tech enthusiasts have cheered for it.
Why vary resistance? Most athletes learn to handle one resistance setting, the National Team standard being IIRC DF120, though anything between 100 and 120 is fine. Changing it tends to throw people for a loop.
Unfortunately, the likelihood of anyone from /r/WallStreetBets getting prosecuted for market manipulation is slim to none...
Yep, another one. This time it's from a Credit bureau.
On a side note, interestingly every single post I've made in the last week has been downvoted. Even this one, which is literally just asking questions. Its almost like I'm being targeted. Dang? Is something going on?
In case it's not obvious, Taboola hasn't been making money by connecting people to content they want to read, but rather by selling passive tracking data.

If a browser goes to ten sites which have Taboola boxes on them, then Taboola can sell the history of that cookie and its browsing history to a targeting company. If the targeting company has a cookie of its own in the same place as a chumbox then the company is able to map everything Taboola knows to everything they know.

Given the efforts of Apple, Google and Mozilla to choke off this type of tech (third party cookie tracking) it's interesting their valuation is this high. I guess they can still make much of counting anonymous visits and mapping them back to IPs for sale.
The difficulty is that when apps like this start out, the internet is the wrong scale.

When an app like this starts, it is a sparsely populated graph. Typically the early users are geographically distant. This distance means that users are unlikely to find anyone nearby. Considered as a marketplace it is illiquid.

It works on Facebook because Facebook's user graph is not sparse. People looking to connect can find other people nearby with similar interests.

Another factor with Facebook is moderation which reduces the risk from bad actors. This is also possible due to scale.

Good luck.
I've found immediately useful information and look forward to digging deeper into the content. Thank you so much for this. Your site is exactly what's been missing for me for so long.
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Israel is definitely the place we'll see the first big impact (or at least we all really hope so). They are already well past 30% with the first shot. I was kind of nervous last week, when they were the leading nation in the world at getting vaccinated, and simultaneously shooting up to new record highs of new cases. But, this week we are just starting to see the first signs of a beneficial impact. This would suggest that you need something like 30% of population with one shot (depending on how many have already been infected, of course) to see a slowdown.

The U.S. is currently at 5%, and we're actually one of the countries furthest along.
> It makes sense to me that moving from electric to piston would require an endorsement.

For a long time, it will be the reverse; the default will be a requirement to be able to fly a conventional-engined airplane, with electric propulsion being an endorsement (probably devoted primarily to battery & power management)
The canonical example is indexing rectangles. They have no total order. It is far from the only example. Any data type where equality and intersection are not equivalent test functions will effectively be non-sortable.

There are many indexing schemes for data with these properties. They focus on topological relationships rather than order relationships.
>I don't think your legal department would prefer you to use BSD instead of AGPL.

Google's legal department is the problem: https://opensource.google/docs/using/agpl-policy/

There's likely nothing your sales or marketing team can when Google, and companies that cargo cult Google's legal, decide not to allow your product gain a foot in the door because of its license.
I wholeheartedly agree. I also think the visualization space is vast and under-explored. Especially in the "hardest" cases like taming complexity, very abstract concepts and discovering new ideas.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2025179?query=fea...

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-suggests-reco...
Are you talking about the phenomenon of blaming poor judgment in consensual sex on alcohol? One major difference is that the unintended consequences of consensual sex are usually reversible afterwards, whereas there’s no undoing a death. Another is that alcohol is usually used as a face-saving measure in the first place. Even if both partners are not that drunk, they now have a socially acceptable excuse to have sex without being perceived to be “as” promiscuous as they would be otherwise. The “consequences” here aren’t so great anyways, at most maybe an unwanted pregnancy, which yes is something one should take responsibility for one way or the other anyways.

If you’re talking about alcohol as an excuse for sexual assault, I agree, and I don’t know anyone in my social circle who wouldn’t. If you’re unable to control yourself on alcohol, then don’t drink. If you drink and end up assaulting someone, sexually or not, that’s entirely on you and you should be punished for it. Don’t be a Brock Turner. The legal system may have double standards, but the rest of us shouldn’t.
There are multiple third party services which use the API to make daily copies of your documents, exporting them as MS Office documents. Yes, this isn't perfect, and you can lose some info in the files, it is pretty good for the most part. Nobody shpould be using G Suite without this, IMHO, because this happens too often.
Seeing what the case positivity is this week is the best way to decide whether the vaccine has been effective enough to go out this week.

Looking at the vaccine numbers for this week is a worse proxy. How does it help?

Sure, you could use the projected vaccinations for next March to decide how likely it is that you'll be able to go and watch a broadway show in March, but, like the weather forecast, you'll need to know what the actual positivity is in March to make the final decisions.
Perhaps it is this one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westray_to_Papa_Westray_flight
Text version: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&u=https:/...

Location: https://goo.gl/maps/ifuXdzgD4CvzBs5f7
There's a huge chunk of neuroscience devoted to questions like this.

Several groups have shown that they can "decode" a remembered image from brain activity. This is comparatively easy when the images are simple and there are only a few possibilities, but can generalize to larger sets of images and even (sort of) never-before-seen ones. Sensory and motor information is relatively accessible; I don't know that anyone's making great progress decoding thoughts like "I should be home by 8pm".

If this is up your alley, you may want to check out work done by Frank Tong's lab at Princeton (e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1808230/) or Jack Gallant's group at UC Berkley (e.g, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105381191...), among others.
So, the same idea that is https://sneakemail.com ?

(happy user for like 12 years?)
This diagram seems to be what you're looking for: https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzM0NTY3NA.jpeg

Shows the stages of material removal/deposit so that the dielectric and channel are clear.
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The annoyance is generated moreso from their certainty than who they are as people. I'm wary of people who little-to-no experience with a certain "thing" who are absolutely certain they understand that "thing".

But there seems to be this idea that I don't like working with these people, but that's not true. Most of these people are really good people who are good at their jobs, who want to be a force for good in the world, and they legitimately think they're on the side of righteousness. They're the modern day version of crusaders, frankly. And much like the crusaders of old their prejudices are borne from ignorance and their certainty is tempered by each other as they self-reinforce.
The buck stops earlier than that. "Replace the cloud/server with git" - where is git hosted? On your server or the cloud.

You're not replacing anything.
Birdwatch, a community-based approach to misinformation
I'd say it's more like they're getting search data from Google.

eg: I search on some medical condition (which I might or might not have) and the next thing I know, all Taboola 'chumbox' blocks are littered with 'ads' (which aren't ads that 'sell' anything) about said condition. Just extremely low quality links with zero value.
From a Big-Oh point of view, the answer is a big yes. No matter the memory technology or the disk page size, be it 256B or 16KB, the PGM-index can scale as B-trees or even better (see my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25901889).
Yeah, this doesn't surprise me. The login system at SO is unnecessarily complex - by which I mean that the complexity of the interface does not match the complexity of the underlying system, because while both have been redesigned several times they've never been completely redesigned together.

So you end up with weird situations like this, where both the interface and the underlying system support multiple associated email addresses, but not in the same ways or with the same functionality exposed.

It is... A legacy system, with all that that entails.
Buying and Running a Site with Infringing Content Is Not Copyright Infringement?
that is already what i'm doing pretty much. i accept blog submissions and try to look for signs of quality, and then monitor for mentions of their sites.

as you suggested though, i didn't know the ML space enough to know that Machine Learning Mastery publishes daily and has an army of people who like and retweet ANYTHING they publish.

so it makes me wonder if i need to have some kind of dampening effect or how i can adapt the algorithm to handle that.
Improve? Mic, perhaps, but my range and connection reliability have gone down the toilet with a new Macbook air, compared to my pre-USB-c version. I can’t get more than 3’ from it without the audio cutting out. The same headphones can get 100’+ with my iPhone SE.
I can't comment on vests for fashion, but for outdoor activities they're a nice big of kit to have, particularly when it's cold but you're exerting yourself. They add warmth while keeping your arms mobile and preventing you from overheating.
Yes but you can run offbase of a local git repo (judging from the post)
> "wearing a mask during a deadly pandemic" is a really simple thing to do to demonstrate willingness to sign on to a social compact.

Interestingly, I wear none, and use that for signaling: I find that I associate more easily with people who also refuse the masquerade!

So you may have a point: mask offer the possibility to signal, which we can both use to refuse to associate given our difference in values.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/afy3fk/n_t...

There's some other ones out there...maybe by Hochreiter or one of the giants out there? I'd take a look at it, it's a free PDF that's absolutely massive and all you need to know for much of the basics and a few other deep areas of deep learning.

Or even better... Just pick a project you like and start doing. It's like art, you'll learn nothing by studying alone, and everything by getting a feel for it and being all excited about it and whatnot there. ;))) :))))
Is there anyone here who is familiar with Japanese culture? The country's ability to express truly psychologically horrific "stuff" is unmatched by what's seen here in the U.S. Is it because the movie industry there is more permissive towards such genere? Is there something in the culture that prompt people to be inspired in this direction.
Czech doctors tend to complain about tons of paperwork, too. We have a public healthcare system with almost universal coverage.

There must be an element of "cover your ass" in there. Usually, excess of papers indicates someone's wariness of possible averse consequences down the line.